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Unlike cold New York
you smile, take in all comers
with your midwest charm.
Pulling apart a
life together, the future
frays like a cut edge.
It happens over
coffee, one stunned, the other
already elsewhere.
“I’m telling you but
don’t worry, I’m fine,” she says.
I listen, but do.
Post-audition, she
was mobbed with requests, star-to-
be in student films.
She may have faults but
to me she’s flawless, a me
I wish I could be.
Taken by cell phone,
he grins shyly, she glows as
if her prince has come.
Bandana over
his sweet smile, ninja to his
anime girlfriend.
He won me over
with his Facebook comment on
her profile picture
Stories always tell
of the one who wanders, then
returns home…like me.
…create. Impatient
that I won’t pay attention
when I’m writing stuff.
Listserv fight breaks out.
Among civil people, the
retorts well-researched.
At the interview
J’s hired on the spot, full of
new employee glee.
Has it really been
a month since I told you all
about my day, dear?
J replaced my mouse
that broke. M’s card made me cry.
Both my greatest gift.
Deciding who to
take like negotiating
Mideast peace treaty.
Who will you be, and
from where? What will have brought you
here – mere chance or choice?
My weirdness is as
apparent in my kids as
streaks in a fake tan.
From a Revealing
start to this auspicious point -
my life in short form.
In wordless despair
M dissolves in tears clutching
me like a life vest.
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